On Monday 25 of June 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> >>   Log:
> >>     allow one to control/override the /usr/lib64 use via Autoconf option
> >>     --enable-build-lib64
> >
> > Usually this is done by ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64.
>
> Possibly I misunderstand, but is that true?  I believe --libdir just
> sets where make install is going to place built libraries, 

Correct. --enable-build-lib64 sets MARK64=64 which is used somewhere so looks 
like it's needed and --libdir=/usr/lib64 will not help here too much.

Unless doing detection in such way:
case "$libdir" in
 *64*)
    MARK=64

> it doesn't 
> build against libs in the root filesystem /usr/lib64, which I understood
> Ralf's comment to mean (like LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64" would).

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